{"id":532103,"date":"2010-04-17T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T19:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8425"},"modified":"2010-04-17T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T19:34:42","slug":"%e2%80%9cperfume-grass%e2%80%9d-could-solve-problem-of-antibiotics-in-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532103","title":{"rendered":"\u201cPerfume Grass\u201d Could Solve Problem of Antibiotics in Water Supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/grass-can-filter-antibiotics-from-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8426\" title=\"grass can filter antibiotics from water\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/grass-can-filter-antibiotics-from-water.jpg\" alt=\"Researchers at Michigan Tech use vetiver grass to remove antibiotics from water\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a>Researchers at <a title=\"mtu website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mtu.edu\/\" >Michigan Technological University<\/a> are on to a simple, low cost solution to the complicated problem of <a title=\"us epa report\" href=\"http:\/\/cfpub.epa.gov\/ncer_abstracts\/index.cfm\/fuseaction\/display.abstractDetail\/abstract\/1066\/report\/F\" >keeping antibiotics out of water supplies<\/a>.\u00a0 In <a title=\"mtu article on waterandwastewater.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.waterandwastewater.com\/www_services\/news_center\/publish\/article_002061.shtml\" >a study of vetiver grass grown in antibiotic-laden water<\/a>, they found that 95.5% of the drugs were removed from the water and taken into the plant tissue.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"vetiver grass on wikipedia.com\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chrysopogon_zizanioides\" >Vetiver<\/a> grass is sturdy, spiky grass native to India that is well known for its use in erosion control.\u00a0 <a title=\"vetiver.org website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vetiver.org\/\" >Vetiver grass is also used in perfumes<\/a> and in handicrafts for local economic development projects.\u00a0 In a somewhat ironic twist given its aromatic properties, vetiver grass is also an up-and-comer in the growing field of <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/02\/20\/golf-club-recycles-water-to-irrigate-greens\/\" >phytoremediation<\/a>, in which plants and wetlands are used to remove contaminants from wastewater and stormwater.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/17\/perfume-grass-could-solve-problem-of-antibiotics-in-water-supply\/#more-8425\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Michigan Technological University are on to a simple, low cost solution to the complicated problem of keeping antibiotics out of water supplies.\u00a0 In a study of vetiver grass grown in antibiotic-laden water, they found that 95.5% of the drugs were removed from the water and taken into the plant tissue. Vetiver grass is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}